Transcript
A (0:00)
Tired of robotic marketing Customer IO helps turn cold hard data into real human connection. Email, SMS, push, webhooks and more. Join 7,800 plus brands using AI powered journeys that connect, convert and don't annoy. Visit Customer IO to start your free trial today. Welcome to the Marketing Millennials, the no BS Marketing podcast. I'm Daniel Murra and join me for unfiltered conversations with the brains behind marketing's coolest companies. The one request I tell our guests stories or it didn't happen. Get ready to turn the up. We are back with another episode of the Market Millennials. I have a really great guest today. He's an author, he loves numbers and he loves marketing science and we're going to chat all about that today. I'm going to let him introduce himself but excited for this episode. So Soren, take it away.
B (1:11)
Likewise. Thank you very much Daniel for the invite. It's a pleasure to be here. My name is Sorin Patili. Net. I'm calling in from Brussels in Belgium in Europe. I'm originally from Romania in Eastern Europe. I'm an engineer trained in telecommunication engineering. But from day one of my career I started in marketing and I've never looked back. And I've, I spent 20 years of my life working for, for various global organizations like British American Tobacco, Mars and recently PepsiCo in roles that span marketing, brand marketing and consumer insights. Because I've wanted to bring my passion for analytics, my, my engineering mindset into, into the world of brands and, and that's where I am today. I'm excited to spend the next couple of minutes with you and explore the, the concepts around marketing effectiveness.
A (2:11)
Yeah, let's go. Let's first of all just, just get into like why you decided to pick this topic to write about. I know you do it for a living, but what does it actually mean to have like effective marketing?
B (2:23)
So marketing effectiveness is actually a trending topic in the world of brands in the sense of it has been always like the number one priority of major advertisers to prove to their CEO CFOs the value of their investment. And with the advent of data and consumer data in particular, the choices that marketeer face every day are more and more accelerating and therefore the ability of ours as a function to keep up with technology is really limited. Therefore, we are questioned a lot. We are asked what's happening with my investment? Are you generating roi? Are you driving consumer engagement? What's happening with, with all this? And I would say that in recent years the, the topic has become More central to, to the conversations that happen in big brands.
A (3:33)
Yeah, I think, I mean, especially now. I mean, big brands and small brands, budgets are very scrutinized. And then now like they want to know, okay, dollars in, dollars out, where's our money going? What channels they're going, what channels are actually working. So, so could you describe what you did at Mars and what you're doing at PepsiCo so people know like what your day to day looks like. And then we can dive into how you think about measuring marketing and how you think about your data driven approaches to it.
